Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck was born on May 2, 1973 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany as Florian Maria Georg Christian Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck. He is a director and writer, known for Οι ζωές των άλλων (2006), The Tourist (2010) and Μη Χαμηλώνεις το Βλέμμα (2018). He is married to Christiane Asschenfeldt. They have three children.